Bahmaei Jamshid, Ravangard Ramin, Bahrami Mohammad Amin, Asadollahi Abdolrahim, Bastani Peivand
Department of Health Services Management, Student Research Committee, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Department of Health Services Management, Health Human Recourses Research Center, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2023 May 31;12:159. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_939_22. eCollection 2023.
The demographic structure of Iran as a developing country has undergone various changes in recent years. Therefore, the present study sought to analyze policy and upstream documents related to the older people health in Iran in order to identify and analyze the requirements considered by health policymakers to promote the older people health in Iran.
This is a qualitative study conducted in 2021 through national qualitative document analysis. All upstream documents published and related to older people health were reviewed between February 1979 and October 2021. The Scott's four-step method was used to extract the related documents.
Policy requirements for promoting older people healthcare in Iran were categorized into 4 main themes in the form of a conceptual framework and 15 sub-themes. Thus, in order to ensure the health of the older people in Iran, it is necessary to take into account the four categories of managerial requirements, financing, infrastructures, and providing older people services. In other words, the sustainable financing requirements and the infrastructural requirements should firstly exist together as basic requirements. Then, geriatric health management requirements are needed to provide the older people health services along with the previous requirements and finally ensure the health of the older people in Iran.
The results of this study can be helpful in the review of upstream older people health policy documents by policy makers in order to better promote the health of the older people and pave the way for new policies to enter the agenda of policy makers.
作为一个发展中国家，伊朗的人口结构近年来发生了各种变化。因此，本研究旨在分析与伊朗老年人健康相关的政策和上游文件，以识别和分析卫生政策制定者在促进伊朗老年人健康方面所考虑的要求。
这是一项于2021年通过全国定性文件分析进行的定性研究。对1979年2月至2021年10月期间发布的所有与老年人健康相关的上游文件进行了审查。采用斯科特的四步法提取相关文件。
促进伊朗老年人医疗保健的政策要求以概念框架的形式分为4个主要主题和15个子主题。因此，为了确保伊朗老年人的健康，有必要考虑管理要求、融资、基础设施和为老年人提供服务这四类。换句话说，可持续融资要求和基础设施要求应首先作为基本要求同时存在。然后，需要老年健康管理要求，以便在满足先前要求的同时为老年人提供健康服务，并最终确保伊朗老年人的健康。
本研究结果有助于政策制定者审查上游老年人健康政策文件，以便更好地促进老年人健康，并为新政策进入政策制定者议程铺平道路。
